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TL;DR: Antec is going to be selling a Steam Deck competitive device, based on the Ayaneo Slide. The device has a slide up screen that reveals a keyboard, which is good because using desktop windows is much easier with a keyboard. However the device's lowest estimated power draw at low/no load is 15w, meaning it will use comparable power to the deck running at max power. This means the battery life will probably be pretty rough when compared to the Deck. It will also likely have a much higher price point.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 18 points 5 months ago (15 children)

Many of the games are made to be run on windows, windows is still a effecient os, it's just a lot of bloat, which can be disabled.

A) as someone else pointed out, "bloat" and "efficient" are exclusive to one another. Now, you can argue that windows is efficient in some areas and bloated in others, but "bloat" and "efficiency" are mutually exclusive when applied generally.

B) yes, most, if not all of it, can be disabled through registry edits and 3rd party hacks. However, in my experience, the more you try to debloat windows, the more unstable it gets. Then, it will all come back eventually via updates, which means you get to disable it all again. Finally, again in my experience, the more you try to debloat windows, the less stable it gets, and this carries over even when the OS reinstalls/reenables bloat you tried to get rid of. Seriously, my experience is that even after windows updates rebloat everything, the OS remains unstable, and becomes even more unstable after you debloat again. Granted this was with windows 10, but I imagine the same is more or less true for windows 11.

Also a lot of optimizations in nt has been done for gaming, features which are missing in the linux kernel, but there are RFCs to add nt like synchronization primitives, in the linux kernel.

C) and yet, iirc, recent Linux vs Windows 11 benchmarks show Windows games running on Linux via Proton/Proton-GE anywhere from slightly slower to slightly faster than Windows, despite requiring translation layers to run; while the Linux-native games typically run faster than their Windows counterparts.

Windows is just that bloated.

[–] Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee -5 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Bloat is in the form av pre installed software and services that can be turned of, Windows is not slow or resource hungry.

You're the one contradicting yourself when you're saying that linux requires a Translation layer. And the translations are not always 1:1. Please show me the benchmarks.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Windows IS resource hungry. No matter what hardware you run your OS on, any Linux Distro will leave Windows in the dust when managing resources, guaranteed.

[–] Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Show me the benchmarks, stop changing topic.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can start by looking at your downvotes, and I didn't downvote even one of your comments.

Then, there's plenty out there, but I will humor you with 1 to get you started:

https://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/linux-vs-windows/

Now, if you like Windows, that's fine, nobody really cares, but that doesn't make Windows good in any way, shape or form.

[–] Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You send some shit article, like wtf is that all you have?

Yes I have a hard time finding benchmarks where the game runs faster on linux, are you going to find some blog post again?

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You just got one and called it shit.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't downvote his comments. Way I see it, he's passionate about Microsoft. That's cool. I mean, wrong, but it's cool he defends his position.

No amount of links or data are going to change his mind.

He even brought out the card of "I know the windows kernel and you don't". That's where you know he's going to keep bringing stuff out of nowhere to try to push his mind and make it valid.

I do not know any kernel, but as a user, that has been on and off windows and Linux for over 20 years, at pretty much all use cases, I can confidently say that Windows is a solid shit show that knows how to market itself and grab their industry by the balls. Nothing else.

[–] Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where talking about gaming on the os, not the os itself.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Look at my other comment, and stop saying that I like windows I don't. But i live in reality unlike you

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

We live in very different realities, buddy.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

We live in very different realities, buddy.

[–] Meansalladknifehands@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

What did I get, random blog with the most basic Comparison? The title of the blog is which OS is the best, yeah I expect a lot of high level Quality from an article like that.

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